TO THE PEOPLE'S COMMISSARIAT OF MILITARY AFFAIRS

January 7 (20), 1918

The bearer – Comrade Rakhia, an old party worker, personally known to me, deserves absolute trust. It is extremely important to help him (for the Finnish proletariat) by issuing weapons: about 10,000 rifles with cartridges, about 10 three-inch cannons with shells.

I earnestly request that you fulfil this, without reducing the numbers.

Yours, Lenin